Current mood:

tired

Listing My Exhausting Day
Let me just tell you about all the great things that have happened to me today.

-Stayed up late casting the show with Mary Ann and Caroline, nursing a headache and somewhat of a temper or angst. It was soothed by sitting on Mary Ann's pleasant patio with peppermint tea, talking auditions and listening to their duck occasionally quacking or splashing. Anyway, I got home around 12:30, but I knew I had to eat something, so I had a muffin, and despite being about to fall asleep, I forced myself to draw half a page in my sketchbook, knowing I feel better in the morning if I give myself time to wind down before going to sleep but also knowing a book wouldn't cut it.

-Felt like a zombie upon waking. (Also, dreamt vividly of something involving water and a giant tank and waves and possibly saving someone from the water? Does that sound significant?)

-Further discussed casting with Caroline.

-Went to mom's house before work (and after library, where I got the newest Tamora Pierce book, finally!) to retrieve my laundry, only to find it wasn't finished. Resolved to come back later.

-Was hounded by obnoxiously slow traffic almost the whole way to work when I was already a bit late.

-Was--well, I wouldn't really say questioned--maybe challenged?--anyway, kind of in a very mild way had my integrity (or something) questioned by a person whom I shall refer to as my supervisor almost as soon as I walked in the door. That's great.

-Had more kids than expected, including a new kid, and was offered my room or the preschoolers. I opted for my room, and I think overall it was fine, but it was six kids and it was a bit hectic.

-Was informed that Co-Teacher will not be there tomorrow, leaving me stuck with what will possibly be seven kids alone all day--just enough to make things hectic, but not enough to warrant another teacher. Sad.

-Slogged through a somehow long and exhausting afternoon involving several injuries, which I barely had the time to write the reports for.

-Was told/asked to leave early (fifteen minutes, peh) today.

-Was then asked to come in at EIGHT AM tomorrow. (Meaning that if I have to leave the house at 7:30, and if I want to give myself the same amount of time as a normal day, I have to get up at 6:00 AM. Gross. And I'm still exhausted from the weekend!) (If it were a normal length of time I would not be quite so concerned, but I'm wondering if they're going to try to finagle a way for me to stay from 8:00 until 6:30 which just makes me want to die. It might be worth it for the overtime cash, but knowing them, they'd just ask me to come in later the next day. But I don't actually know what their plans are, so all this bitching is probably for nothing.)

-Back to mom's house for laundry, DVDs, and a book. Decided against going to the grocery store even though I am out of cheese.

-Home, dealt with some show stuff, made dinner.

-Wrestled with crap lack of Internet.

-Wrestled with fan which lives in window--wouldn't stay perched there as it did yesterday, and eventually fell over. Now it is in my reading chair, which I don't think I've used since before I went to Baltimore.

-Sat on the couch eating and attempting to use the computer and watching TV--AND THEN THE FURNACE CAME ON. THE FURNACE. WHAT. My apartment is eighty degrees and the thermostat is set for like fifty-five or something. I don't understand how this happened! Unless I have central air in the furnace and didn't know it (which is clearly something I just made up)? Tired and confused, I just switched off the furnace, resolving to look at it/think of it later.

-Rinsed almost all of my dishes and ugh there are so many of them and I so so don't want to wash them but I am out of so many things. I think I will wash enough to get me through a couple of days tonight and then do the rest on Wednesday.

Still to do:

-Dishes, as mentioned

-Put away clean laundry and then return dirty laundry to proper place

-E-mail JW

I think I will go and do a handful of dishes, forgo the tea and the writing (alas, but I so need my rest right now), and just go to bed with Bloodhound until I fall asleep. And hopefully do e-mail in the morning.

(On the other hand, the show is cast--hooray!)